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FAD Magazine covers contemporary art – News, Exhibitions and Interviews reported on from London

Waking Up to Woking

Woking may not be trendy… but it’s only 19 train minutes from Clapham Junction and has a new shopping centre! What do you mean, you still don’t want to go? It also has plenty of art at the moment:

Bridget Riley Hayward Gallery FAD Magazine

Bridget Riley

On now Hayward Gallery are showing a major retrospective devoted to the work of celebrated British artist Bridget Riley. Spanning 70 years of the artist’s working life, it is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of her work to date.

Image: Bridget Riley, Memories of Horizons 3, 2014 © Bridget Riley 2018. All Rights Reserved.

BRIDGET RILEY PAINTING NOW

Comprising work made between 1960 and the present, Bridget Riley: Painting Now surveys the development of Riley’s career-long exploration of looking and seeing in relation to the capacities of painting and picture making.

fig-2: A New Art exhibition every week for 2015

Fifteen years ago a Soho warehouse hosted 50 art events in 50 weeks. Writers, architects and even milliners exhibited alongside both famous, and unknown, artists. As the project is revived for 2015, Nicholas Wroe talks to its curators about capturing the spirit of the times

175 Years of The Royal College of Art

In 1837, the Government School of Design opened in Somerset House on the Strand in London: the world’s first, publicly funded design school. 175 years later and now known as the Royal College of Art, it is the world’s oldest art and design university in continuous operation.

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